Family Health Assessment Melody Moore Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Instructor: Renita Holmes May 10th 2013 Family Health Assessment A comprehensive family assessment provides a foundation to promote family health (Edelman&Mandle‚ 2011).Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method developed by Marjorie Gordon in 1987 in which she proposed functional health patterns as a guide to establishing a comprehensive data base.(Kriegler&Harton‚1992).Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns
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important role in the paradigm of health promotion for the patient. The roles in which the family plays in assisting the patient and providing care are crucial to the health of the patient and the well being of the family as a whole. One tool to assess not only a patient and their views on different aspects of health‚ but an entire family or even community is Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns. This assessment tool incorporates eleven topics of health patterns. Health patterns of families evolve and
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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V June 17‚ 2013 Family Health Assessment Conducting a family health assessment utilizing a functional health patterns assessment is the first step in the nursing process to create health care plans for the individual or family. A thorough assessment lays the groundwork to promote family health.(Mandle‚ 2010‚ p. 175)The purpose of this paper is to look at one
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Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS-429 November 24‚ 2013 Family Health Assessment As nurses it is essential to use appropriate tools to assess individuals‚ families‚ and communities. Throughout this paper the writer used The Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns as a guide to assess a family. This family included a mother‚ a father‚ one son‚ four daughters‚ and two grandsons. The writer developed two to three open minded‚ family focused questions for each of the 11 functional
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Health Assessment Family health assessment is a process by which to examine and evaluate the level of health in a family. Traditionally‚ a nuclear family is a basic social group consisting of parents and their children. In today’s society‚ it is common place to encounter blended families as well. Blended families are established through the unification of two parents and their children from previous relationships. Regardless of whether a family group is nuclear or blended‚ the family unit has a belief
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Health Self Assessment In order to improve one’s health and quality of life‚ it is important to be aware of an individual’s health status. Our textbook authors‚ Meeks‚ Hait & Paige (2009) describe the importance of self-appraisals and health behavior inventories in teaching students about their practices that will impact their health. In order to become an effective teacher who is enthusiastic about health education‚ the author of this paper focuses on gaining a comprehensive understanding
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head: Family Health Assessment Joy Ebomwonyi Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion: NRS 429v August 26‚ 2012 Open-Minded Family focused Questions I interview a family who were willing to answer the questions as long as they remained anonymous when the paper is written. I will not be using the name of the family that I interviewed for this assignment. The interview was based on the all the Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns.
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between a comprehensive health assessment and a specific or risk assessment? Comprehensive health assessment is baseline for the nurse making a care plan and doctor diagnosing. It is analysing physiological‚ psychological‚ spiritual‚ socioeconomic‚ and cultural variables which can impact a person’s functional health status (UTS handbook‚ 2012). Comprehensive assessment‚ is the collecting of data from an individual’s information and monitoring the health status‚ this includes health history obtained via
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Public health has the interests of the public at its core. According to the Department of Health (DoH) (2012) Public health is concerned with prevention and therefore encourages people to ‘stay healthy’ and ‘avoid getting ill’. Health visitors work at the heart of the family to have a positive impact on the future of the child by preventing diseases and identifying any health or social problems early (Carter‚ 2011) A Heath Visitor offers a service available to all families that primarily delivers
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The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is a set of questions used to examine an individual’s ethnic‚ cultural and religious heritage. HAT can be used to understand an individual’s health traditions. The answers to the questionnaire can be used to evaluate how an individual views of health maintenance‚ health protection and health restoration. The author will review three different individuals culture heritage using the HAT. The cultures that are being compare for differences in health traditions of
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